That really worries me. I’ve got 2 gt2b’s I use (and 2 mini remotes.) I’ve never set any failsafes. I assume the vesc has a failsafe thats enabled by default… if so, shouldn’t that be all thats needed?
I’ve also had a couple incidents where noob friends riding my boards hit the throttle accidentally and send the board flying. I wonder if it’d be possible to implement a feature in the firmware to somehow detect and prevent this scenario. Seems like there would probably be some threshold values where erpm is high and current draw is low that would only happen if the board is accelerating rapidly with no weight on it.
I just tested my 2 boards with mini remotes… The motors stopped spinning immediately after turning the remote off. Then tested my gt2b boards and the motors also stopped, but after about .5 to 1 second delay. I’m still gonna open those boards up and set failsafe properly but that was kinda interesting.
On any board with any remote, make sure if you turn the remote off (or wrap it with aluminum foil) that the skate goes to neutral/coast and not acceleration or braking
Please remember there are really 2 fail-safes that need to be set. There is a failsafe on the receiver so that sets what it does if it looses comm with the transmitter (this is the one that probably gets used the most), and a failsafe set in the esc that determines what happens when it looses signal from the receiver (ex. If the plug were to fall out or the receiver is goes poof). Please please please everyone make sure BOTH of these failsafes are set properly!
I saw some posts about the GT2b having a fixed fail safe on the receiver that is at 1.5 ms, so even if you set with the remote it will go to that after a while, or this fail safe happens when you turn the board on without having the remote on
Someone can confirm, as I safety I set my VESC by having the middle point at 1.5 ms and never had to worry about it
Wow, sorry about your board and glad everyone is alright. I’m looking for a 6p pack if you want to get rid of the 6p 30q that’s basically done. LMK if you’re interested.
That could explain my situation. I turned on my board and nothing happened then approximately 20 seconds later not having turned on my remote it went flying down the street lol